This paper examines how in-service teachers enrolled in an MA in TESOL program demonstrated critical language awareness (CLA) as they designed and implemented ethnographic action research projects anchored in funds of knowledge. The action research project aimed to introduce teachers to school-based ethnographic research and to provide an…

Informed by theorizing positioning and agency, this article presents a case study by examining a science teacher's positioning acts and her agency development in a middle school in New York City. An analysis of this teacher's teaching narratives reveals that when she positioned her emergent multilingual students as "whole people," who…

This article looks at three examples of using language autobiographies in English Education. The first example comes from using this approach when teaching in inner London to unlock the cultural and linguistic knowledge of secondary school children. The second example looks at how this approach was adapted in the training of secondary English…